This was not Shadowsun's mockery.
She truly hoped so.
Because she
did not want both sides to suffer.
That would benefit neither race.
If peace talks were possible...
The battlefield in the Tau Empire's Damocles Gulf region had entered a critical stage.
Likewise, the war in another region had also entered a decisive struggle.
Koboi District.
As the last batch of humans from the hive world were transferred away aboard massive vessels,
these two billion people had become prospective citizens awaiting Gamma World's next round of integration.
The black vessels slowly departed from the planet's orbit.
Below the hive world of Koboi District, those who had stubbornly resisted and organized themselves against Gamma World's T'au fleet
were now all watching Gamma World's ships rise from the ground.
Watching those black, stone-like things one after another.
As though they were evacuating the world,
they were leaving in orderly formation.
They believed they had driven out the humans, completely chased them away.
"We won?"
"Those people ran away?"
"Come out!"
"They ran away!"
"We won!"
High above them,
those massive black ships rising from the ground had altered their spatial gravity and could hold even more people. As they left the planet, vast amounts of soil fell away, and even sections of the vessels broke off, making them look as though they were fleeing in panic.
The human exodus stirred their excitement.
The man named Xien looked at the humans he had driven away.
He felt incomparably delighted.
They had won.
"We won!"
"The commanders must have already taken down the human fleet. That's why they're fleeing like this!"
However,
Gamma World's fleet had already penetrated the core region of their Kexi-Mai-En worlds.
As for those outer worlds,
Gamma World's fleet
had no need to keep deploying troops once all the people